Electric vehicles, carpooling and policy changes suggested to improve air quality in Maharashtra March 3, 2021 In a virtual public town hall, environmentalists, activists and government officials came together to discuss and advocate measures to combat...
All froth and fury: Milk as protest tool in Haryana March 3, 2021 Angered by inaction over the farm laws, some dairies in rural Haryana have stopped sending milk to the cities from...
Floods account for almost half the deaths in India due to extreme weather events in the past 50 years March 3, 2021 In the past two decades, freak weather events such as floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves, cold waves and lightning have...
‘One district, one focus product’ policy: Farmers’ income to increase, exports to rise, says Union Agri ministry March 2, 2021 Expected to be a shot in the arm for India’s agro-industry, the ODOFP policy seeks to capitalise on indigenous, specialised...
The Weapon of Choice: This time round, perpetrators in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, use poison to assault three Dalit women, leaving two dead March 2, 2021 There are at least 60 million female farmers and agriculture labourers in India who are often hailed as the backbone...
Kerala’s Attukal Pongala: Bubbling over with devotion March 2, 2021 The annual Attukal Pongala festival in Thiruvananthapuram that draws about four million women was not held this year. A Virtual...
Growing Success: 19 women-owned FPOs are providing agriculture-related services to farmers in Jharkhand March 2, 2021 Women farmers in Jharkhand become joint owners of farmer producer organisations through the self-help groups they are a part of....
What forces landed farmers from Bihar to work as migrant labourers elsewhere? March 1, 2021 The annual floods in Bihar and the collapse of the APMC mandi system are two reasons why land-owning farmers in...
Invitation to Disaster: Even before the Uttarakhand disaster, NTPC was violating muck disposal norms at Tapovan project March 1, 2021 In March 2020, the Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board found NTPC violating the environment ministry’s muck disposal rules. Despite repeated warnings,...
A life less equal: At least 340 manual scavengers dead in the past 5 years March 1, 2021 Twenty eight years after it was banned in the country, manual scavenging continues in India. A 2019 survey by The...
Electric vehicles, carpooling and policy changes suggested to improve air quality in Maharashtra March 3, 2021 In a virtual public town hall, environmentalists, activists and government officials came together to discuss and advocate measures to combat...
All froth and fury: Milk as protest tool in Haryana March 3, 2021 Angered by inaction over the farm laws, some dairies in rural Haryana have stopped sending milk to the cities from...
Floods account for almost half the deaths in India due to extreme weather events in the past 50 years March 3, 2021 In the past two decades, freak weather events such as floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves, cold waves and lightning have...
‘One district, one focus product’ policy: Farmers’ income to increase, exports to rise, says Union Agri ministry March 2, 2021 Expected to be a shot in the arm for India’s agro-industry, the ODOFP policy seeks to capitalise on indigenous, specialised...
The Weapon of Choice: This time round, perpetrators in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, use poison to assault three Dalit women, leaving two dead March 2, 2021 There are at least 60 million female farmers and agriculture labourers in India who are often hailed as the backbone...
Kerala’s Attukal Pongala: Bubbling over with devotion March 2, 2021 The annual Attukal Pongala festival in Thiruvananthapuram that draws about four million women was not held this year. A Virtual...
Growing Success: 19 women-owned FPOs are providing agriculture-related services to farmers in Jharkhand March 2, 2021 Women farmers in Jharkhand become joint owners of farmer producer organisations through the self-help groups they are a part of....
What forces landed farmers from Bihar to work as migrant labourers elsewhere? March 1, 2021 The annual floods in Bihar and the collapse of the APMC mandi system are two reasons why land-owning farmers in...
Invitation to Disaster: Even before the Uttarakhand disaster, NTPC was violating muck disposal norms at Tapovan project March 1, 2021 In March 2020, the Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board found NTPC violating the environment ministry’s muck disposal rules. Despite repeated warnings,...
A life less equal: At least 340 manual scavengers dead in the past 5 years March 1, 2021 Twenty eight years after it was banned in the country, manual scavenging continues in India. A 2019 survey by The...